from the "Winning Hearts and Minds Department".....

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Sun Nov-02-03 07:41 PM
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from the "Winning Hearts and Minds Department".....

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,7734136%5E1702,00.html

The farmer, Ziad Yass Abbas, was watering his crops when US troops, standing about 400 metres away, opened fire on him at around 6am (2pm AEDT), said his nephew, Yass Amer Abbas, who was with him at the time.

It was not clear why the US troops opened fire but another witness, university student Ayman Abbas, said: "I saw the Americans looking at Ziad. They probably thought he was suspicious because he was standing there and watching them, so they fired a rifle at him from their armoured personnel carrier."

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